Hi Troops:
Well, the lamp went out in my HP scanner and I figured that since I bought it in 1998 there might not be much chance of simply getting it repaired. The gent at Best Buy's repair center said it would cost more to repair than a new scanner would be. Based on some recent comments on this sight I went for a Cannon scanner. It was $79.95. The HP it replaces was $299.95 in 1998. Electronics and time, aye, aye, aye! First CD player I saw at Jim Disney's Stansbury Audio and Video way back in the 70's was around $7995.00. Now they are under $50. Only problem with the scanner so far is that it saves images in Adobe's .pdf format. I gotta figure out how to make them in .jpg format.
Bill Shuey